making – KDD & Co

Aoife Mc Lysaght

Introducing wise and generous Aoife Mc Lysaght

inkling is out

By: KDD May 16, 2021May 16, 2021

books, creativity, Kate Davies Designs, making, publishing, textilesbooks, creativity, design, inkling, knitting, making, Milarrochy Tweed, publishing, work9 Comments

The Inkling book is published!

changing direction

there’s no “best” way to knit socks, but which way do you prefer?

behind the mask

accepting that not everything works out is key to the (slow) creative process

work in progress

A creative collaboration celebrating performance, parody and play

mend

We celebrate the new edition of Wheesht with this essay exploring the creative work of mending and Celia Pym’s inspiring practice

zwiebelmuster

Nicole Wagler tells us about eighteenth-century porcelain and her sense of place in Meissen

make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

Kate talks to Flora Collingwood-Norris about mending, Scottish islands, and how colour makes you feel

re-knitting

By: KDD January 31, 2021March 21, 2021

design, knitting, making, processamazing knitters, baffies, bieldy, design, knitters, knitting, making, peerie flooers, process, reknitting48 Comments

reflections on repeat knitting

destination: sleeve island

By: KDD January 24, 2021March 21, 2021

design, knitting, making, processcircular needles, design, fixed circulars, knitting, knitting styles, making, process, sleeve island, sleeves75 Comments

Sleeve island: the best place to be?

We were able to put quite a few things in the KDD shop last week, including our brand new 10 Years in the Making book. The book is now available for wholesale too, so if you are a bookshop or yarn store (or know a bookshop or yarn store) who would like to stock this…

my McRostie forever bag

By: KDD October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

craft, Kate Davies, knitting, making, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, textilesbag, Clydesdales, craft, Glasgow, handbag, leather, leatherwork, making, McRostie15 Comments

Today we released the Evendoon Cardigan – the third pattern in our 10 Years in the Making Club (come and join us for three months of knitting fun!) I really enjoyed styling this cardigan with my beautiful Mull Bag, which was made for me a wee while ago by Colin Campbell of McRostie: one of…

Glasgow’s atelier economy: then and now

By: KDD September 28, 2020September 28, 2020

History, making, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, Politics, writingbook, Glasgow, History, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, Politics, publishing, slavery, writing8 Comments

Today I thought I’d share with you the introductory words I wrote for People MAKE Glasgow . For me – a former eighteenth-century specialist – the connections between Glasgow’s eighteenth-century past and its twenty-first century present have always been apparent, and I really enjoyed having the opportunity to write about those connections here. People MAKE…

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